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Students from all over the state today participated in a walkout to protest gun violence, a day after the rest of the country did because of the recent Noreaster we got smacked with. We were told that the purpose of these protests was to stand in solidarity with the 17 people killed in Florida. But predictably it turned into a school sanctioned political protest in which only one side of the issue was heard.

I have 3 beefs with this:

Schools shouldn’t be promoting one political ideology over another.

If you skipped your protest because there was no school that day then you don’t really believe in anything you’re protesting for.

If your protest is supported by the establishment, then your protest is bootleg.

Public schools are funded by the taxpayers. Under no circumstances should teachers and administrators be teaching kids that one point of view is right and the other is wrong. But that’s exactly what happened with these protests. If you want more gun control you’re right, and if you don’t then you’re wrong. What happens if anti-abortion students want to do a walkout next week? Will teachers get behind it and allow them to skip class in order to do so?

Or how bout this – what if students had protested for an end to refugees after two refugees killed 8 year old Martin Richard at the Boston Marathon? It’s the same concept as gun control. Guns kills people – restrict guns. Refugees kill people – restrict refugees. Of course the schools wouldn’t allow that. It would probably get the kids in trouble for hate speech. This isn’t a right-left thing. This is a consistency thing. Schools have no business endorsing one political viewpoint over another.

A moving tribute at Acton Boxborough High School to lives lost to gun violence. Proud to stand in silence with students & community and to turn tears to action for sensible #gun safety policies. pic.twitter.com/6OmRm8f2i7

The students who participated in this are being patted on the back by adults, teachers, and others for “taking a stand.” But they’re not praising them for the fact that they’re protesting. They’re praising them for WHAT they are protesting. This is the Boston Globe’s latest headline:

Again, does anyone think the sunshine patrol would be calling for the voting age to move to 16 if these kids were holding protests to build a wall? Of course not. They only want the age lowered to 16 because they know that kids this age will vote the “right” way.

More importantly, these kids proved by protesting today in places like Worcester and Malden:

That they have no convictions. If they did then they would’ve protested yesterday on the day the protest was to take place. But then they wouldn’t be able to skip class. And they’d have to get off their asses and find a way to school to come together and protest. Way too much work. They proved beyond a shadow of a doubt today that the only purpose of this protest was to get out of class.

Point 3

Here’s my biggest beef with this – what kind of bootleg protest is allowed by the establishment? Do you realize how lame your protest is if “the man” approves of it?Seriously, the Worcester Fire Department and Police Departments both went to Burncoat High School today for crowd control because they walked out of school. They were there to protect the kids and allow them to protest.

At least Colin Kaepernick, as idiotic as he is, was willing to take an unpopular stance and sacrifice his career as a result of it. These kids are sacrificing nothing. They won’t suffer or get in trouble. They’re actually being praised far and wide. They’re being invited on Ellen for crying out loud.

What the hell is wrong with these kids? Do you understand how protesting works? You’re supposed to be raging against the machine. When the machine is telling you how brave you are, and not punishing you for your protest, your protest has completely lost its meaning.

People protested the Vietnam War by burning their draft cards. When protesters crossed the bridge in Selma they were confronted and beaten by the police. These actions were ballsy because they could get arrested or hurt. The people in power did not want to let them express themselves.

This is what education looks like.

Hundreds of students from dozens of communities, including all four I represent, were at the State House today demanding action on "Extreme Risk" gun control legislation.

Not these kids though. Old fogies are literally telling them they’re the greatest generation that has ever existed. That they’re “brave” for skipping class and announcing that they’re against gun violence. As if anyone is in favor of gun violence. This would be like kids in the 60’s protesting that men shouldn’t grow their hair long.

Congratulations kids, your protest is wack as shit and you’re officially part of the establishment you think you’re protesting against.

The Democrats are using this people. Simple as that. SJW’s and students are doing the dirty work for Washington insiders who don’t want Trump cause he is upsetting the applecart. They SJW’s are protecting the swamp and don’t even know it. Fools.

Article is spot on but this sorta is a right/left thing because the right doesn’t do this, push the “the children shall lead us” crap or convince them to do mass walkouts etc. My opinion, this is uniquely a left thing.

Fuck all the fucking students.. Yep, fuck them. These assholes are the same motherfuckers that bully and terrorize their classmates to the point that the bullied students lose their minds. Motherfuckers teased Cruz to the point that he lost his mind and shot up the school (don’t get me wrong, he should burn in hell for what he did). These are the same cunts that tortured the girl in South Hadley to the point where she killed herself. The Colombine murderers were bullied. Newtown shooter was bullied and ostracized by his peers. And these are just a few examples. Anyone see the common fucking thread? If not, the common thread is the fucking turds protesting gun violence are the same fuckheads who relentlessly bully and terrorize their fellow classmates. They don’t bully like back in the day though. They have social media that they have weaponized to deliver especially cruel and never-ending attacks against those that they deem unworthy to be in their presence. Some kids simply cannot deal with the constant barrage of insults and denigrating comments and they snap. So they lose it and exact revenge against the fucking little shits. Rather than look at the root cause of the problem (bullying), they take the grown-ups agenda for gun control and run with it. You know what all you fucking shitheads who want to protest for gun control should fucking do? Fix your fucking selves first. You fuckheads caused the problems, yeah, you fuckheads did this. Your torture tactics drove kids to do horrible things. Guaran-fucking-tee if there were no guns, the ones you tortured would find another device to kill as many of their torturers as they could. The fucking weapon of choice is not the problem nor is it the root cause of the problem. You motherfucking punk ass pieces of shit are fucking responsible for this. Had the students in Florida spent less time bullying a fellow student and more time working at learning, they would have prevented the tragedy.
Instead of being bullies, how about you fucks get your shit together and stop with the fucking bullying. Until you fuckers clean up your own shit, you will get zero attention or respect from me and others who feel the same way. Until then, fuck all of you; you are the problem, not guns.

Every once in awhile a person with a lot of insight and intelligence to a topic or subject will post that makes so much common sense and ‘It’s not guns, it’s the students’ you hit the target right on the (X) what a excellent commentary.

Even if this was said, a kid and their parents would go to school admin and complain that the kid was exercising their freedom of speech and should make it up. In the end even if the teacher stood their ground, I’m sure the teacher would be to blame and would receive a reprimand for “ruining the students grade”.

The school system is a joke nowadays. Kids get away with so much and run amok in schools with no consequences for their actions.

Orchestrated, facilitated and entirely scripted by the shamefully agenda driven left.
Good job, young komerades. Freedom is so overrated.
Be sure to turn your parents in if they disagree with the State.
Everyone gets a red star.
You all should listen to the punk classic “California Uber Allis”. (Dead Kennedys, Give me convenience or give me death, 1987.)
May the 17 victims Rest In Peace.

That 4% sign is bullshit. Anyone who murders someone, regardless of weapon choice, has a mental health problem. We don’t lead the world in mental health problems, and we don’t have the most mass shootings. Take away our guns and it’s very possible our country will be invaded. It’s not the oceans protecting us it’s the fact that for every 100 citizens, there are 100 guns. Take away our guns and Mexico will just make more guns with no serial numbers. Take away the second amendment then take away the first too so you can’t complain anymore. More laws for guns, yes. But don’t believe every bullshit statistic cnn wants you to believe. You have the right to voice yourself, but say the wrong thing to a cop and you’ll get arrested for disorderly conduct, there’s also “hate speech” yet not too many laws for the second amendment. If someone wants to kill someone they will. I’m just glad that if someone wants to kill me I can have a fighting chance. Funny how cnn never talked about the guy in Texas who shot and killed the church mass shooter with his ar-15….